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thirty Definition

thirty (t̸hʉrt′ē)

adjective

three times ten

Etymology: LME thirti, metathetic for thritti < OE thritig < thri, three + -tig, -ty

noun pl. -·ties

  1. the cardinal number between twenty-nine and thirty-one; 30; XXX
  2. ☆

    Etymology: prob. orig. telegraphers' code for a concluding sentence

    this number used to signify the end of a dispatch, story, etc., as for a newspaper

thirty Idioms

the thirties

the numbers or years, as of a century, from thirty through thirty-nine

thirty Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • mid: Stocking is currently 70 odd fish to mid thirties; a further 25 plus fish will be stocked this autumn.
  • early: Our FBI profiling model suggests a white male, late twenties / early thirties.
  • late: All of these ex students would be in their late thirties or early forties.

Modifies a noun

  • style: She also gives an authentic thirties style to this album Amazing its as if she is streamlining Billie!
  • styling: A very sweet English vintage belt buckle, in slate blue printed celluloid plastic, over a metal base, with great thirties styling.
  • other: Some authorities maintain there THIRTY, others TWENTY, yet more FIFTEEN, TEN, NINE, or SEVEN.
thirty Quotes

  The faces of most American women over thirtyare relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

—Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key

Between thirty and forty a man may have reached the height of discretionwithout having tumbledover thetop and into the feather-bed of correctitude.

—Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold

  I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

—Arnold, Matthew

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them,What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

—Bible (NewTestament)

'I've never been spoken to like this before in all my thirty years'experience,'she wails.'You have not had thirty years'experience,Mrs Grindle-Jones,' he says witheringly. 'You have had one year's experience 30 times.'

—Carr,J(ames) L(loyd)